Date of Award
1998
Degree Name
Humanities
College
College of Liberal Arts
Type of Degree
M.A.
Document Type
Thesis
First Advisor
Joyce East
Second Advisor
Arline Thorn
Third Advisor
M. Smith
Fourth Advisor
Richard Garnett
Abstract
Scholars have generally ignored Irish novelist and playwright Roddy Doyle. Little attention has been paid to his narrative techniques or to his development as a novelist. In the American academy, thus far, only one dissertation concerning Doyle’s novels has appeared, written in 1996, by Caramine White, at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. White notes that her dissertation is the first on Doyle and “its basic purpose will be to introduce the novels to the reading public and to convince the reading public that Doyle, although a very popular artist, is also a gifted writer who should be taken seriously” (White 1). White focuses on Doyle’s “innovative use of language; his manipulation of his audience’s reaction via humor and comedy; the role, however slight, of religion and politics; his overall social vision as projected in the novels both individually and as part of the complete body of work” (White 1). White’s dissertation, then, is obviously a broad-based one aimed at establishing an academically oriented credibility for Doyle’s novels.
Subject(s)
Doyle, Roddy, -- 1958- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Novelists, Irish.
Recommended Citation
Poe, Larry, "Narrative voicings in the novels of Roddy Doyle" (1998). Theses, Dissertations and Capstones. 1793.
https://mds.marshall.edu/etd/1793
